Thinking about the application and development strategy of industrial engineering

This paper points out: the tradition industrial engineering originated in the manufacturing industry, but the future industrial engineering will be suitable for all the integrated system which contains people and objects; the tradition industrial engineering emphasis on micro-management, but the development of the future industrial engineering will pay first attention to the macro-problems. It has analyzed the relationship of the specialized engineering technology and the industrial engineering technology in the integrated system, and pointed out: because the industrial engineering technology has the seeking optimization characteristic and the hysteresis of developing time, the research and application for industrial engineering technology falls behind to the specialized engineering technology. It has further pointed out that the application and extension of industrial engineering will appear the development period and slow growing period, in slow growing period, it will develop slowly, even stagnate. This paper has analyzed the reasons which cause this situation and proposed the countermeasures.